The movement was particularly dominated by François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 1781 ).

* 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

* Guillaume du Tillot ( 1711 – 1774 ), politician

** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis V ( 1774 – 1792 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1793 )

* Éléments de physiologie ( 1773 – 1774 )

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

In 1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with Robert Jameson ( 1774 – 1854 ), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh magazine.

* Mary Parker Jr ( 1774 – 1859 )

* 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge ( d. 1850 )

* 1710 – King Louis XV of France ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Hans Järta, Swedish political activist ( d. 1847 )

* A Pretty Story Written in the Year of Our Lord 1774.

The town was part of property owned by Lord Baltimore and was originally surveyed on April 14, 1774.

* Lord William Bentinck ( 1774 – 1839 ), soldier and Governor-General of India

In 1774, a force from the Colony of Virginia garrisoned and occupied the stockade during Lord Dunmore's War against the Mingo and Shawnee peoples.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

During Lord Dunmore's War, Black's Fort was established in 1774 by Joseph Black to protect local settlers in the region from Indian attacks.

Most historians, however, regard it not as a battle of the Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ), but as a part of Lord Dunmore's War ( 1774 ).

The father Lord Holland ( 1705 – 1774 ) was an ally of Robert Walpole and rival of Pitt the Elder.

* Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, for Lord Irwin ( 1774 );

Shelburne introduced him to Lord Bute and brought him into parliament for his borough of Chipping Wycombe ( 1761 – 1774 ), and then for Calne ( 1774 – 1790 ).

In 1774 he became Lord Mayor ; he was simultaneously Master of the Joiners ' Company, where he changed the motto from " GOD GRANNTE US TO USE JUSTICE WITHE MERCYE " to " JOIN LOYALTY AND LIBERTY ", a political slogan associated with Wilkes.

A principal source is The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ the reported ( yet disputed ) visions of the stigmatic German nun Anne Catherine Emmerich ( 1774 – 1824 ), as written by the poet Clemens Brentano.

When Tecumseh was a boy, his father Puckshinwa was " brutally murdered " by white frontiersmen who had crossed onto Indian land in violation of a recent treaty, at the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore ’ s War in 1774.

In 1774 he was returned to the Parliament of Great Britain for Midlothian, and joined the party of Frederick North, Lord North ; he was a proud Scots speaker and he soon distinguished himself by his clear and argumentative speeches.

A note from Lord North to the Office of Works, dated September 1774, asks that the work on the front of the house, " which was begun by a Warrant from the Treasury dated 9 August 1766 ", should be finished.

In 1774 he drafted and sent to Lord Dartmouth " a plan of self-government for America, independent of Parliament, without renouncing the Crown.

* Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck ( 14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839 ).

As Lord Mahon he contested the Westminster without success in 1774, when only just of age ; but from the general election of 1780 until his accession to the peerage on 7 March 1786 he represented through the influence of Lord Shelburne the Buckinghamshire borough of High Wycombe.

On April 22, 1774, Prime Minister Lord North defended the program in the House of Commons, saying:

Leeds was a Member of Parliament for Eye in 1774 and for Helston from 1774 to 1775 ; in 1776 having received a writ of acceleration as Baron Osborne, he entered the House of Lords, and in 1777 Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household.

This led to Lord Dunmore's War, fought in 1774, primarily between the Shawnee and the Province of Virginia.